Hull Pottery had its beginnings when A.E. Hull first entered the field of manufacturing of stoneware in 1901, as founder of the Globe Stoneware Company in Crooksville, Ohio. Their success encouraged them to expand and formulate the Acme Pottery Company for the purpose of manufacturing a line of semi-porcelain plain and decorated dinnerware. A.E. Hull sold his interest in the company, and organized the A.E. Hull Company in 1905. Hull's success at quickly establishing a firm market and excellent reputation in ceramics, allowed him to purchase the Acme Pottery Company and utilize it for a second plant.

In the 1920's, Hull had established a full line of quality stoneware; semi-porcelain (in plain and embossed shapes, decorated with bands and stamps, underglazed and overglazed); art pottery (with both air-brushed and blended glazes); plain and decorated florist's pots and saucers; gardenware; and, special lusterware (in a rainbow of iridescent colors).

Hull advertised that "due to variation in materials used to manufacture", it was impossible to produce earthenware that would not eventually craze, or shrink. During Hull's early years, other methods besides casting were used. Many of Hull's kitchenware items were formed by jiggering. This method was very similiar to hand turning, but is faster and easier, thus produces more uniform shape and thickness. A wheel was used which was on a plastic mold. The clay was pressed against the sides of the mold by a "bat", sometimes called a pull-down or paddle.

Hull Pottery survived the Stock Market Crash of 1929, a changing economy, and consumers' desires from earthenware to utilitarian kitchenware, to art ware. Hull Pottery later survived a devasting fire as a result of severe flooding throughout the Crooksville village of about 3,000. An estimated 1,500 pottery workers were affected by the flood; approximately 350 of these were Hull company employees. Nearly one week later, the pottery village was back in action, and shipments resumed.

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